George Peter Opondo Kaluma

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 5821 to 5830 of 6087.

• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: (a) reviews the conduct in office of the President, the Deputy President and other State officers and initiates the process of removing them from office; and (b) exercises oversight over State organs.” I wanted to say two things. One, no organ of the State exercises oversight over others other than the National Assembly. So, the Judiciary cannot purport to oversee the National Assembly or the Senate. The Executive cannot oversee us. It is the National Assembly that exercises oversight. In the conduct of this matter the second thing I wanted to address is that if you read Article 260 of ... view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: We have exercised a lot of restraint particularly in the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, but I wanted to tell hon. Members that by dint of the provision I have read out, there is nothing stopping this Assembly of the nation from summoning these judges issuing orders casually and dealing with them. In fact, we can discipline them. This is the power to discipline. I think we should not be crying so much. We want to say: “Hon. Speaker, proceed.” I think this is a matter that now requires a bit of leadership of the various arms of ... view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I think if this National Assembly is keen to still be constrained or restrained in exercising this power, I will personally move this House that really we begin thinking about reviewing the conduct of some of these judicial officers because they are an embarrassment. We cannot be put in a situation where, as an organ of Government, we appear to be quarrelling with another organ of Government as if the Constitution does not state clearly what we should be doing. view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, go there firmly. In any event I think the Kenyan people ought to understand that we have nothing against the Judiciary. We want the Judiciary to function. In fact, we would have intervened a lot. We are doing a lot in the legal sector. We make sacrifices for everything. We do not want courts to issue vain orders. A writer was referring to the situation where we find ourselves in, in an article that I read with my brother, hon. Ngeno. He talked of judicialization of politics - a situation where politics leaves the national platform and is ... view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: In my constituency, our people do not know what this County Government Fund is all about. They know the CDF and we took billions of shillings there. A person is saying that contrary to the provisions of Chapter 6, there is another organ of the Government somewhere which can give us refuge. You go and rest there when you are to be interrogated. view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Really, let me end by reiterating that we will not at any given time call a judicial officer to tell them the decisions they are making be made in any direction. It will be contrary to the principles of separation of power. But the Judiciary should also not intervene in the internal proceedings and workings of Parliament.Those are non-existent orders. Of course in the minds of the public who do not understand well, it is like we are fighting with the Judiciary, which we cannot. view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I urge that you insist on a meeting involving the three arms of the Government. By the way, I believe you should chair that meeting for obviously this is the face of the people of Kenya and get a solution if there is a problem. For the sake of the people of Kenya, we need to exercise our power of discipline under Article 95(5). view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: I support. view
• 18 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I cannot agree more, but it is for both gender. What this Bill seeks to do is to qualify in no uncertain terms what relationship qualifies for a marriage and it is critical. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in legal practice I have had to deal with so many matters, particularly in the area of succession where you get the truly married spouse is marrying a deceased spouse, but in Nairobi in the High Court another woman, mainly female gender, is petitioning for administration of the estate. Of course, this is something which has wrecked ... view
• 18 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: repealing seven statutes that deal with the issue of marriage. We can have one legal text that any Kenyan who seeks to marry can put his hands on and really determine the regime of law under which they want to marry. What pleases more from this Bill is that, for once, all forms of marriages are registrable. Currently, only people who wed in church and the people who marry within the context of the civil marriages in the Attorney-General’s Chambers have a Marriage Certificate. We, therefore, have a situation where the decent women of this country married to very good ... view